Date: 21 Dec 2004 18:03:12 +0200
From: SecuriTeam <support@securiteam.com.>
To: [email protected]Subject: [NT] My Firewall Plus Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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My Firewall Plus Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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SUMMARY
<http://www.webroot.com/products/myfirewallplus/>; My Firewall Plus is a
"Corporate strength firewall for your personal PC".
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in My Firewall Plus, which
can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
DETAILS
Vulnerable Systems:
* My Firewall Plus version 5.0 (build 1117)
The vulnerability is caused due to the "Smc.exe" process invoking the help
functionality with SYSTEM privileges.
This can be exploited to execute arbitrary programs on a system with
escalated privileges.
Solution:
Apply patch: <http://www.webroot.com/services/MFP_Patch.exe>;
http://www.webroot.com/services/MFP_Patch.exe
Time Table:
15/11/2004 - Vulnerability discovered.
15/11/2004 - Vendor notified.
15/11/2004 - Vendor response.
16/12/2004 - Vendor issues patch.
21/12/2004 - Public disclosure.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The information has been provided by <mailto:che@secunia.com.> Carsten H.
Eiram.
The original article can be found at:
<http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2004-16/>;
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2004-16/
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